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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:41:22 -0800
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>:The overall size of the shared memory segment is limited to that
>:	which can fit in the kernels virtual address space; this
>:	artificially restricts the maximum size.

   That isn't true and hasn't been true for several years in FreeBSD.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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